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Avantor, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Sanborn, New York · Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 424690

3inspections
10citation items
$72,300current penalties
Aug 4, 2023last inspection

OSHA has inspected Avantor, Inc. 3 times in New York since 2022.

The latest one began on Aug 4, 2023 to follow up on an earlier case, in Sanborn.

Those inspections ended with 10 citation items: 10 serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $104,110 and now stand at $72,300, 31% lower after settlements or reviews.

Process safety management comes up most often in these citations: 9 items under 1910.119.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for wholesale employers since 2015 is $3,425, and Avantor, Inc. averages $36,150 (2 cited inspections).

Avantor, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

Avantor, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2022 to 2023
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 346887862 OPENED AUG 4, 2023Closed

Follow-up · Partial · Health · 65 employees at the site · Closed Sep 26, 2023

6357 Inducon Drive East, Sanborn, NY 14132 · All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 346333180 OPENED NOV 9, 2022Closed

Referral · Partial · Health · 65 employees at the site · Closed Sep 26, 2024

6357 Inducon Drive East, Sanborn, NY 14132 · Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.119(c)(1) · Process safety management
Serious$15,625$11,000May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)(d) · Process safety management
Serious$0$0May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.119(e)(1) · Process safety management
Serious$15,625$11,000May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 4a
29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(ii)(b) · Process safety management
Serious$15,625$11,000May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 4b
29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(iii)(b) · Process safety management
Serious$0$0May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 4c
29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(iv) · Process safety management
Serious$0$0May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.119(j)(2) · Process safety management
Serious$15,625$11,000May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 6
29 CFR 1910.119(j)(4)(i) · Process safety management
Serious$15,625$11,000May 8, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 1910.119(l)(1) · Process safety management
Serious$15,625$11,000May 8, 2023Final

Inspection 346110562 OPENED JUL 27, 2022Closed

Referral · Partial · Health · 65 employees at the site · Closed Dec 13, 2022

6357 Inducon Drive East, Sanborn, NY 14132 · Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.120(q)(6) · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response
Serious$10,360$6,300Sep 30, 2022Final

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2020, the Sanborn site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 50 workers: 6.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.7 for its industry. Those cases cost 14 days away from work.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
VWR Chemicals, LLC
Sanborn · 2020
50 316.40.7
Avantor LLC
Sanborn · 2019
54 000.00.7

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.119 · Process safety management

29 CFR 1910.119(c)(1)

(c) Employee participation. (1) Employers shall develop a written plan of action regarding the implementation of the employee participation required by this paragraph.

29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)(d)

(D) Relief system design and design basis;

29 CFR 1910.119(e)(1)

(e) Process hazard analysis. (1) The employer shall perform an initial process hazard analysis (hazard evaluation) on processes covered by this standard. The process hazard analysis shall be appropriate to the complexity of the process and shall identify, evaluate, and control the hazards involved in the process. Employers shall determine and document the priority order for conducting process hazard analyses based on a rationale which includes such considerations as extent of the process hazards, number of potentially affected employees, age of the process, and operating history of the process. The process hazard analysis shall be conducted as soon as possible, but not later than the following schedule:

29 CFR 1910.120 · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response

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